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Sara Thompson

Library Resources - First Year Seminars at Drake - Research Guides at Drake University - 2 views

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info-literacy instruction libguides libraries

shared by Sara Thompson on 22 Apr 12 - No Cached
  • Sara Thompson on 22 Apr 12
     
    Drake LibGuides for first-year classes, as presented at IPAL 2012
Deb Robertson

Kimbel Library Instructional Videos - 1 views

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Tutorials information literacy literacy video Instruction

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  • Deb Robertson on 05 May 12
     
    Joshua Vossler, Information Literacy/Reference Librarian at Coastal Carolina University, gave an incredibly entertaining and energetic presentation on creating instructional videos. He believes that learning is dependent on focused attention; therefore, the instructional videos we create need to be dynamic and humorous.  Joshua provided a helpful list of best practices for creating instructional videos, such as "Use anything silly or weird, such as a chicken" and "Videos should be no longer than three minutes." I highly recommend that you check out his videos here. He has certainly inspired me to brainstorm ways I can infuse more humor into my own instructional video series.
Sara Thompson

project curve, part six: collaborative instruction portfolios. « info-mational - 0 views

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instruction portfolios info-literacy libraries training professional prof-dev articles

shared by Sara Thompson on 17 Feb 12 - No Cached
  • Faculty (post-instruction and end of term) and student survey instruments are available online.
  • An important deliverable of this project is that it creates an lasting, annualized archive of the cumulative efforts, learning objects, and outcomes related to a given instruction program on both the course and aggregate level
  • Portfolio projects of this nature also streamline group efforts and produce ready programmatic evidence of instructional effectiveness and outcomes, crucial to the processes of accreditation, review, and value demonstration
Sara Thompson

Information Literacy: A Neglected Core Competency (EDUCAUSE Quarterly) | EDUCAUSE - 0 views

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info-literacy instruction libraries education transliteracy

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  • The findings are troubling. College students think of information seeking as a rote process and tend to use the same small set of information resources no matter what question they have: The primary sources they use for course work are course readings and Google. They rely on professors to be "research coaches" for identifying additional sources. They use Google and Wikipedia for research about everyday life topics. They tend not to use library services that require interacting with librarians.
  • The Association of American Colleges and Universities identified information literacy as one of the essential learning outcomes that prepare students for 21st century challenges.2 The"2010 Horizon Report," a collaboration between the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative and the New Media Consortium, indicated that the need for training in the related digital media literacy is a critical challenge in education for the next five years. The Council for Independent Colleges offers annual workshops for chief academic officers, librarians, and faculty on integrating information literacy at their campuses.3
  • Sara Thompson on 12 Mar 12
     
    Researchers at the Information School at the University of Washington released an important and thought-provoking report in late 2009: "Lessons Learned: How College Students Seek Information in the Digital Age."1 The study confirms and expands on the results of other reports. Its particular value is the size of the population studied, the diversity of institutions represented, and the use of both a survey and follow-up interviews for data collection.
fleschnerj

Why your website stinks - 2 views

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Website library usability

shared by fleschnerj on 18 Mar 12 - No Cached
  • fleschnerj on 18 Mar 12
     
    All too true.
Mark Lindner

Glorious Generalist: Simplifying Library Database Interfaces - 2 views

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librariana database research search

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  • Mark Lindner on 28 Mar 12
     
    EBSCO interface tweaking & general thoughts on db interfaces By the way, I know this author personally.
Sara Thompson

Lesson Plans - Digital Writing and Research Lab - 0 views

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assignments teaching courses instruction instruction-design examples presentations

shared by Sara Thompson on 28 May 12 - No Cached
  • Sara Thompson on 28 May 12
     
    "The DWRL is pleased to share our library of innovative technology-based lesson plans and classroom assignments created by DWRL Instructors. Our new online database features a wide assortment of lesson plans and assignments employing a number of technologies. The lesson plans address a broad spectrum of pedagogical activities-from initial brainstorming to electronic peer review, from interactive visual rhetoric lessons to collaborative multi-media online publications; the site also features lesson plans suitable for time spans as short as a single class and as lengthy as semester-long projects. Also, be sure to visit the DWRL's Blogging Pedagogy site which features an ongoing series of weekly interviews with individual instructors about their technology-based assignments, allowing for a more in-depth and personal look at our featured lesson plans."
Sara Thompson

2009 - Lack of Annual Reports Make it Difficult to Analyze Library Strategic Credibility - 0 views

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  • Sara Thompson on 24 May 12
     
    This study gives a snapshot ofthe trends in strategic plans of ARL members. It shows that many ARL members do not produce an annual report, and that it istherefore difficult to assess if their strategic plans are implemented successfully.
fleschnerj

Make it easy: art in your library - 0 views

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shared by fleschnerj on 05 Jul 12 - No Cached
  • fleschnerj on 05 Jul 12
     
    Work smarter not harder. Delegate, delegate, delegate. If you want something done, get a busy person to do it. Wise words for the time-strapped librarian. Know what's even smarter? Not spending a dime to do so. The cash-strapped librarian is challenged to "do more with less"* and still be the modern miracle worker that he/she is.
Sara Thompson

DNLTechTeam - YouTube - 1 views

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shared by Sara Thompson on 15 Aug 12 - No Cached
  • Sara Thompson on 15 Aug 12
     
    Videos about using various Library equipment, including iPad projection and other tools
fleschnerj

On ethical reference service (or, "Fishmongers? In my library?") - 0 views

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libraries reference fish

shared by fleschnerj on 11 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • fleschnerj on 11 Sep 12
     
    There's an old saying: give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day; teach him how to fish and he'll die from mercury poisoning because you can't survive on nothing but fish. Or something like that. I never was any good at proverbs.
Deb Robertson

Best practices for integrating e-books in academic libraries | The Search Principle: vi... - 1 views

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collection development eBooks best practices

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  • Deb Robertson on 17 Sep 12
     
    This posting offers links and references to several other articles on this topic.
  • Deb Robertson on 17 Sep 12
     
    Still trying to solve this puzzle
fleschnerj

OCLC WorldShare Announcement - 0 views

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OCLC WorldShare

shared by fleschnerj on 05 Dec 11 - No Cached
  • fleschnerj on 05 Dec 11
     
    Today we are launching the OCLC WorldShare Platform, a shared technical infrastructure that will support a growing number of OCLC services and applications. This platform will enable library developers, partners and other organizations to create, configure and share a wide range of applications that deliver new functionality and value for libraries and their users.
Sara Thompson

Project MUSE - Subject Guides in Academic Libraries: A User-Centred Study of ... - 0 views

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libguides libraries survey students

shared by Sara Thompson on 30 Nov 11 - No Cached
  • This paper reports on the results of a qualitative research project that investigates how students use subject guides, and what students like and dislike about subject guides.
  • Sara Thompson on 30 Nov 11
     
    Only 11 students in the survey, but as we saw with our usability testing, patterns tend to emerge with even a small group of people. 
Sara Thompson

"I need three peer reviewed articles" or the Freshman research paper | Information Want... - 0 views

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shared by Sara Thompson on 08 Dec 11 - No Cached
  • And every year, I become more and more convinced that having first-year students use peer-reviewed literature in their research is a terrible idea that takes the focus away from what is important for them to learn.
  • Expecting a first-year student to be able to grasp literary criticism and science articles written for other PhD’s seems crazy to me.
  • It becomes more about finding an article that is at least somewhat related to their topic than finding good evidence for their argument.
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  • I understand perfectly that faculty want their first-year students to find quality resources and they want their students to have an understanding of scholarly communication. But is the best way to do that forcing them to find scholarly articles for a research paper? That requires so many different skills that many of these students don’t have yet: 1. The ability to turn a topic into a search strategy 2. The ability to search in library databases 3. The ability to look at a citation and determine whether it is a scholarly journal or not (or maybe they’ve just checked a box in a database which means that they never need to learn this important skill) 4. The ability to read an abstract and determine whether the article is relevant to their topic 5. The ability to read a scholarly journal article and synthesize information from it 6. The ability to integrate evidence from the scholarly literature into their paper 7. The ability to write effectively
  • Another thing that the focus on requiring students to only find peer-reviewed sources does is that it distances them from research and information literacy.
  • But when the focus is on telling students that the only quality stuff comes from the peer-reviewed literature, we are distancing what students learn in school about information literacy from what they will do in the real world.
  • I also love the idea of giving all students in a class peer-reviewed articles from different disciplines and have them analyze them together. It can not only help them to understand and dissect peer-reviewed literature, but it can also show them the differences in scholarly communication in different disciplines.
Mark Lindner

Kuali | Celeripedean - 2 views

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shared by Mark Lindner on 31 Dec 11 - No Cached
  • Sara Thompson on 01 Jan 12
     
    "another open source ILS called Kuali OLE. Kuali is a open source extensible service driven library management system geared towards academic and research libraries."
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